Hannah Durkin’s new book delves into a century of research and a multitude of human lives.
,” folds a century of research and a multitude of human lives into a story that, in some ways, comes down to a single remark. Durkin recounts the comment, made by a formerly enslaved man named Osia Keeby, in passing, while carrying the many burdens that attach to any responsible study of chattel slavery. But the burdens her book carries best involve bearing witness to the lives of people like Keeby, who pointed to a man on a street near Mobile, Ala.
survivors into 19th-century Zeligs or Forrest Gumps, marching through history one cameo appearance at a time. These flights of associational fancy sometimes get out of hand, but the successful ones work so well that a reader forgives the occasional misfire. Consider, for example, what Durkin makes of the fact that a significant portion of the book’s action unfolds in or near Selma and Montgomery, cities that would become central to the 20th-century civil rights movement. This means that the Clotilda
survivors walked the same streets as civil rights luminaries — and sometimes met them. In one case, an elderly survivor named Redoshi befriended a young Amelia Boynton Robinson, who would become a pillar of the movement and a close associate of King and others. Robinson later wrote a memoir that credited the old African woman and her shipmates for modeling the boldness that the civil rights struggle required.
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